50th Blood Donation

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Last week I was donating blood. At the check-in I was greeted with additional piece of paper to fill out. I may have looked a bit puzzled, because I was told that this is good news. I will get rewarded¹, because this is my 50th Blood Donation with the Red Cross.

50 Blood Donations …

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Since both my father and my grandfather achieved more than 100 donations, there was a bit of pressure 🙂

Thus, over the past 18 years I was donating blood more or less regularly. Frequency highly depending on the availability of possibilities to donate. In the city I lived when I was 18, there was a university clinic and you could come by donating blood any day of the week. I donated a lot back then. When I moved to Bamberg to study, the Red Cross only came by once per month with a mobile donation station. If I already had plans for this day, I needed to wait for another month for the next possibility. My donation frequency dropped.

In the city I live today, mobile donation units come by on a more regular basis. I need to check their schedule and plan ahead, but at least I have more than one chance per month.

As a male adult, I am allowed to donate up to six times per year. This was my fourth donation this year and I think that I’ll make at least one more. Keeping this frequency (~5/y), I will need another 10 years to come up with 100. Fingers crossed 🤞

If it has been some time since you donated blood the last time - and your health allows it - please check out if there is a possibility near by. We may all need it at some point and it’s a very easy way to give something back to society.

With the Red Cross, reward seldom has a financial benefit. Most likely, there will be a piece of paper stating that I donated 50 times. ↩︎

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Becoming a First Aid Instructor

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:00:00 +0100

One of my goals for this year is to become a First Aid Instructor. Back at university, I liked teaching classes and I hope that repeating first aid lessons regularly helps me to get more routine in my work as voluntary paramedic.

The journey to become an instructor is quite long. I already attended a two-day seminar, and a first aid class. Tomorrow, I will join another class and maybe even teach a short section myself. Let‘s see how confident I feel. I didn’t look into the topic much in recent weeks.

After that, I need to join a third class where I will teach roughly one hour of the class. This will be rated. And finally, I will go on a five-day seminar in September to learn more about adult education.

The Red Cross definetly takes this serious 😅

When was your last First Aid Class?

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